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Toondog productions presents:

Mercury history part 1 - 3

Mercury history part 4 -7











Just in case anyone is interested.

In past Merc was first choice in motors, but after the way they used our Stillwater Mercruiser plant to bust union demands in Fondowhere ever I will never buy one again.

plus their county agreed to a 0.5% sales tax to pay back a $50 million loan to keep
the company there, only to have them farm out a bunch of the jobs to overseas.
great, thanks for nothin.

I know that it makes you mad about the way the company is run and how they don't care about the workers and customers in the U.S.A. but name one company that has not done the same. They all want the money but don't want the headaches and high cost of building it here. It's a story told around the country about each and every great company that was an American company at one time.

Thats true, but it doesnt mean we have to like it or support it.
Until someone is held accountable, crooks will continue to rob, and thats the bottom line.
You cant expect a thief to quit stealing by just saying stop.
Especially when he continues to be rewarded for stealing.
This is nothing new... its been going on through all of time. Crooks happen.
Whats new is the way we're headed trying to fix it.

The 'people' in charge dont seem to care if a business is around in 100 years anymore. They just want to STEAL as much as they can, as quickly as they can.

Liberal dumasses think regulating every breath we can take is the key.
Ironically, the morons create so many loopholes with their attack, they actually increase Stealing and muddy up the cat n mouse game. While at the same time SUCKING innovation out of the growth process while trying to share the wealth. Duh.

The only rule we need is accountability.
Dont reward failure and throw thief's in JAIL.
Thats it.... its that easy.

With hard work, we can right the wrong. But it will take years of HARD democracy work. Great things can be created when smart people are not smothered, and are allowed to create. Thats why there IS an America today.

OR, we can follow the weakminded, LAZY path of 'i dont care how hard you worked for your crap, give me all your crap cause i dont have any' Socialist style and let the government control us at the cost of innovation and our world power title. How people think the government can run ANYTHING well when they couldnt even run a whore house in Nevada, is beyond me.
Yes, the gov actually took over a whore house due to tax problems awhile back, then couldnt run it at a profit. really? yup. ...a whore house. ..at a profit. let that one sink it.....
wow.

Now everyones excited that the govermnet is gonna fix our healthcare system.
Yaaa.... riiight...
That would be funny as hell if it wasnt true.

These days, it seems we might just have more whiners then workers.
We are now approaching the tipping point, and we all know which direction the captain of our American boat wants to drive us....

Personal pride and holding people accountable is the key.....
Hopefully we regain some damn self respect, pride, honesty, and accountability before liberal minded whiners regulate us into a socialist regime that turns us into a third world country.

The truly amazing part to me are the number of supporters driving us in a direction thats totally opposite of hard work and how and why we are even HERE today as a nation. We all know how well socialism has worked on places its been tryed... duh.
Yes sir re bob, Mr. Hope can really talk the talk, but in the end, the bottom is gonna be reeeal painful.

If my Merc ever dies, im going to do the right thing and work hard to buy another one VS do the Obama thing, and just take the one off my neighbors boat.

welp, rant Off...
these kind of discussions belong in off topic anyways...
btw, my Merc is running goooood...
Those vids are Awesome! Hard Work Works!

There's a sucker born every minute, you just have to know how to get their money and make them think they like it.

DC and American company's seem to have it down pat.

I agree with all. It's funny that they forgot the part about letting Yamaha build their outboards and painting them black, marking them up beyound what you could buy a Yamaha for and telling you how good it is that you're buying american. I can't tell you how many people are shocked that their american made Merc is actually a Yami. The funny thing is that Yamaha parts all fit on those Merc OB's but Merc likes to make it hard to get the tools and such to work on it. All one has to do is go get the Yamaha tool and work on your Merc all day long. Nice.

Bottom line, the whole rebadging thing only works until people find out what you've done. Then they say to themselves, If Merc is buying from Yamaha and in turn sells to me, why don't I just go straight to Yamaha and buy theirs and cut the middle man out.

they forgot the part about letting Yamaha build their outboards and painting them black

Are they still Yamaha's? They did mention a joint venture with Yamaha that started in 1972 and ended in 1983 with an order from the federal trade commission.
Man...I didn't know this would spark such debate. I just thought it was impressive how merc was practically started by accident. This is the kind of story they should be teaching our kids. At least the early stuff. Instead of social and economic justice crap.

Yes, Merc 4 stroke motors were being made by Yamaha until 2006 when the contract ran out. the Verado have always been made by Merc.

WaltF wrote:Thats true, but it doesnt mean we have to like it or support it.
Until someone is held accountable, crooks will continue to rob, and thats the bottom line.
You cant expect a thief to quit stealing by just saying stop.
Especially when he continues to be rewarded for stealing.
This is nothing new... its been going on through all of time. Crooks happen.
Whats new is the way we're headed trying to fix it.

The 'people' in charge dont seem to care if a business is around in 100 years anymore. They just want to STEAL as much as they can, as quickly as they can.

Liberal dumasses think regulating every breath we can take is the key.
Ironically, the morons create so many loopholes with their attack, they actually increase Stealing and muddy up the cat n mouse game. While at the same time SUCKING innovation out of the growth process while trying to share the wealth. Duh.

The only rule we need is accountability.
Dont reward failure and throw thief's in JAIL.
Thats it.... its that easy.

With hard work, we can right the wrong. But it will take years of HARD democracy work. Great things can be created when smart people are not smothered, and are allowed to create. Thats why there IS an America today.

OR, we can follow the weakminded, LAZY path of 'i dont care how hard you worked for your crap, give me all your crap cause i dont have any' Socialist style and let the government control us at the cost of innovation and our world power title. How people think the government can run ANYTHING well when they couldnt even run a whore house in Nevada, is beyond me.
Yes, the gov actually took over a whore house due to tax problems awhile back, then couldnt run it at a profit. really? yup. ...a whore house. ..at a profit. let that one sink it.....
wow.

Now everyones excited that the govermnet is gonna fix our healthcare system.
Yaaa.... riiight...
That would be funny as hell if it wasnt true.

These days, it seems we might just have more whiners then workers.
We are now approaching the tipping point, and we all know which direction the captain of our American boat wants to drive us....

Personal pride and holding people accountable is the key.....
Hopefully we regain some damn self respect, pride, honesty, and accountability before liberal minded whiners regulate us into a socialist regime that turns us into a third world country.

The truly amazing part to me are the number of supporters driving us in a direction thats totally opposite of hard work and how and why we are even HERE today as a nation. We all know how well socialism has worked on places its been tryed... duh.
Yes sir re bob, Mr. Hope can really talk the talk, but in the end, the bottom is gonna be reeeal painful.

If my Merc ever dies, im going to do the right thing and work hard to buy another one VS do the Obama thing, and just take the one off my neighbors boat.

welp, rant Off...
these kind of discussions belong in off topic anyways...
btw, my Merc is running goooood...
Those vids are Awesome! Hard Work Works!

you had to have that third cup of coffee, eh?

outsourcing is a question of legislation. some other countries charge us
huge tariffs for us to leverage their markets, but our dumbass politicians
let them profit from our market for free.

isolationism to some extent makes sense.

the Dawg can read me like a book....
Musta been thinking about the good ole days when BillofSC would open his trap!
Man, i miss the days of stuffing a Fricken sock down his throat!
ROFL!!!


...
ps, i hope Goofy comes around again.. i look every day to see if he's posted....

jimrs wrote:I know that it makes you mad about the way the company is run and how they don't care about the workers and customers in the U.S.A. but name one company that has not done the same. They all want the money but don't want the headaches and high cost of building it here. It's a story told around the country about each and every great company that was an American company at one time.

name 10 more companies that were given $50 million to be paid back with the help of the local residents voting for a sales tax increase.
this is not a normal outsourcing situation. the people bent over backwards to keep the jobs here and merc is farming them out.
that's bullshit.